Minimizing the Cost of Projects in Naval Shipyards.
Abstract
The thesis is concerned with a problem of scheduling that arises in naval shipyards as well as in many other organizations. The problem considered is that of minimizing the total cost of a project with limited manpower available from the various shops and where the number of mandays to accomplish each activity in the project is specified. Total project cost consists of normal direct labor cost, overtime cost, and a penalty for exceeding some specified target date. It is shown that this problem includes several other, more common scheduling problems such as job-shop scheduling. The relationship among the various problems is described including the use of existing solution procedures to solve special cases of the shipyard problem. (Modified author abstract)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1973
- Accession Number
- AD0769801
Entities
People
- Norman John Shackelton Jr
Organizations
- Naval Postgraduate School